A hybrid approach to mining frequent sequential patterns

  • Authors:
  • Erich Allen Peterson;Peiyi Tang

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Little Rock, AR;University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Little Rock, AR

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 47th Annual Southeast Regional Conference
  • Year:
  • 2009

Quantified Score

Hi-index 0.00

Visualization

Abstract

The mining of frequent sequential patterns has been a hot and well studied area---under the broad umbrella of research known as KDD (Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining)---for well over a decade. Yet researchers are still uncovering interesting problems, new algorithms, and ways to improve upon existing methods. In this paper, we marry state-of-the-art frequent sequential pattern mining algorithms (e.g., SPAM, FOF, PrefixSpan), data structures (e.g., aggregate tree, bitmap), and other tried-and-true methods for candidate generation (e.g., apriori), in an attempt to derive a new algorithm with the best qualities of the aforementioned algorithms. In this paper, we disseminate the new algorithm created, lessons learned, and future work to be done.